LAHORE: Imambargahs, mosques to have safety gates

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LAHORE, Oct 7: The City District Government will install safety gates at all important mosques and Imambargahs in the provincial metropolis for screening of the entrants.

District Nazim Mian Amer made an announcement to this effect at a meeting of the District Peace Committee held here on Thursday with Pir Mohammad Ibrahim Sialvi in the chair to consider ways and means for maintaining sectarian harmony.

The Nazim also announced placing four cars at the disposal of peace committee members to enable them to call on ulema of all sects individually for requesting them to make efforts for maintaining sectarian peace.

The committee condemned the bomb blasts in Sialkot and Multan and decided to send an ulema delegation, led by Pir Mohammad Ibrahim Sialvi, to both the cities for meeting the families of the victims of the blasts.

Meanwhile, peace committee members Maulana Mujibur Rahman Inqilabi, Maulana Mohammad Husain Akbar and Maulana Mushtaq Husain Jaffery agreed to cancel the demonstration against bomb blasts.

The meeting was attended by Maulana Mohammad Husain Akbar, Maulana Naubahar Shah, Haider Ali Mirza, Syed Shakir Ali Rizvi, Allama Mushtaq Husain Jaffery, Maulana Mujibur Rahman Inqilabi, Maulana Saeedur Rahman, Pirzada Usman Noori and Maulana Shakilur Rahman and all superintendents of police posted in the city.

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